Next month's book discussion will take place on Tuesday, February 21st. We will be discussing Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. Beautiful Ruins takes place in 1962 and follows Dee Moray, an American starlet who has just left the set of the movie Cleopatra. She finds herself at Pasquale Tursi's hotel. Then, move forward fifty years and meet Claire, the assistant to movie producer Michael Deane. A screenwriter desperate to sell his script and an older Italian man both show up at Claire's office. Jess Walter traces the lines between these characters to show just how catastrophic and wonderful life can be.
Jess Walter is the author of six novels, one book of short stories, and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into multiple languages. A list of his work is below.
Jess Walter's Books:
Beautiful Ruins
The Financial Lives of the Poets
The Zero
Citizen Vince
Land of the Blind
Over Tumbled Graves
Every Knee Shall Bow
We Live in Water
If you liked Beautiful Ruins, you may like one of these too.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani
Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper by Hilary Liftin
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
One Day by David Nicholls
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler
Acts of Love by Judith Michael
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